View of side of Presbyterian Church and half of the front facade of the Manse, Lake City, Colorado, taken from Gunnison Avenue. Known as the oldest church on the Western Slope (built by George M. Darley in 1876, the the Manse built 1879), both are Capenter Gothic style with clapboard siding and front gables. Church has a well proportioned steeple with wooden shingles and louvers with pointed arches. Manse is a two-story frame structure with window pediments, a carved ; wood tracery beneath apex of eaves, and a panel door entry with transom window. Tall cottonwoods line streets and white picket fence surrounds both buildings at Fifth Street and Gunnison Avenue; residences and bluff are in background.

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Album photoprint has adhesive staining on back of image.; Historic designation in Lake City Historic District, 1977.; Penciled on back of photoprint: Lake City, 1959, Presbyterian Church.; Photonegative was formerly negative number WO694.; Title supplied by cataloger.; Vintage photographic print with scalloped edges and "Jun 59" on white border.; R7100000166

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